perverse
Example Sentences
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Offering them benefits and talks has had a perverse effect, Jaramillo said, prompting them to militarize to negotiate from a position of strength.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
This may be the most perverse incentive of the U.S. tort system.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Ideally, insurers would be doing this on my behalf, but they have a perverse incentive.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026
It said the low level of the standard benefit "creates a logical – but perverse - incentive for people to claim the health element too".
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
It probably shows a perverse element of my personality that even though I was finally inside the Archives, surrounded by endless secrets, that I was drawn to the one locked door I had found.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing perverse
Romeo and Juliet
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The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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